Re: [armedbear-devel] TYPE-ERROR #<java.lang.String foo {BADEAFFE}> cannot be coerced to a string.

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org> wrote:

Hi.

Just stumbled across this one when I tried to use STRING-EQUAL to compare a value I received via JINTERFACE-IMPLEMENTATION.

Now, it appears to be very simple to allow the expression

 (string (jnew "java.lang.String" "foo"))

by overriding STRING() in JavaObject and checking if obj is a (java) String.

What do you think?

I think it would be a valuable addition, but why limit it to Strings? (string java-object) could always return the result of calling toString() on the wrapped object, or "null" when it's null. Bye, Alessio